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Software Outsourcing

Outsourcing is often defined as the delegation of non-core operations or jobs from internal production within a business to an external entity that specializes in that operation. Outsourcing is a business decision that is often made to lower costs or focus on competencies. Due to the nature of programming, the outsourcing of software development has evolved more rapidly than other areas of job outsourcing.

The path to creating a secure application begins by rigorously testing source code for all vulnerabilities and ensuring that use of the application does not compromise or allow others to compromise data privacy and integrity.

The research surveyed CIOs, IT Directors and Heads of IT in the U.S., U.K., and Singapore from medium to large enterprises and the public sector. The findings reveal that respondents fully anticipate significant growth in outsourcing.

The cloud services market is now directly addressing the needs of application developers, with an emerging class of services that provides fast, on-demand provisioning; instant scale up and down capabilities, and support for multi-tier application architectures, as well as workload migration capabilities and a pay-as-you go model.

In addition to keeping the Hallmark.com site up during huge traffic spikes experienced during critical business periods, Savvis is helping Hallmark stay on the leading edge by supporting initiatives to expand upon its line of innovative new digital products and services.

By choosing Savvis as a provider for all its infrastructure, Wall Street Systems is succeeding in the fiercely competitive SaaS marketplace by delivering reliable, scalable, mission-critical solutions to its highly demanding client base.

Find out how Coverity has helped Frequentis ensure a high level of software integrity to support its product mission of freedom from failure, while continually improving the productivity of its developers.

How can a company decide what the right decision is when it comes to outsourcing? A growing percentage of companies are reaping the benefits of leveraging technology to streamline business operations and automate their business processes to create greater efficiencies by turning to outsourced web hosting. In today's economy, more and more small to medium sized businesses with no IT staff, or an already over-burdened IT staff, are finding there is no other choice. However, even with companies that have the resources necessary to host their own websites are looking to outsource their hosting needs. For these companies not resources, but the issue of ensuring that the hosting environment is secure, reliable, and scalable is why they look towards outsourcing. Learn the pros and cons of outsourcing and how NeoSpire can help.

Companies exploring offshore software development often find an overwhelming array of options. For example, is India the best choice? What about China, Russia or Brazil? Time, distance and language barriers also make it difficult to assess the quality of offshore developers. How can businesses reduce the risks of offshoring?

Despite the fact that Software Executives are pressured to do more with less and cut costs to the bone, many see offshoring as a "threat." They know they need to go offshore - but where? And with who? What they want is an easier, better, more effective and safer way to use offshore programming resources.

This whitepaper asserts that moving to the next generation of software development and sourcing requires moving from art to science. Given how dependent we are on software as a foundation for every product and service, anything less creates a climate of risk, uncertainty, and unjustifiable costs that undermines our ability to compete in a global marketplace.

Doug Gold, chief financial officer of CoreObjects, a Los Angeles-based product development company with multiple locations across India, talks about how his company is overcoming the challenges of visibility and control within distributed software development projects.

Offshore development has been embraced by the vast majority of commercial software vendors and enterprise application development groups. Why? Because a world flattened by globalization makes it possible to improve competitiveness by taking advantage of the easy exchange of low-cost, high-quality technical skills.

This whitepaper outlines a way for organizations to build a modern framework for managing distributed teams that overcomes the structural challenges of working across far-flung locations, and ensures projects come in as expected—on time, on budget and on target with business goals. This framework reuses your existing development infrastructure to restore visibility and empowered decision making within your globally distributed software development projects.